What is your favorite MP3 Tagger/Renamer (explain why)

I'm the developper of K-MP3. I would like to know why some people prefer other softwares.

where is case's tag? i think many people on this board are using it (incl. me)

regards; ilikedirt

I'm using Case's Tag, too, and often even without a frontend.

foobar2000 does everything fine, including tagging and renaming.

Same thing, where is cases tag. Tagger is also another option and some people might even use the Winamp Media Library.

Also is it really necessary that everytime you come to this board you try to promote your software in at least 5 different threads. Wouldn't one be enough. I am already informed about the availability of K-MP3 since you posted in about three different threads about it last week. Maybe you should not try to shove your software down peoples throats and then they might have a quiet moment to think about it and maybe give it a try.

Excuse me since i've never heard of Case's Tag before i did not included it to the poll.... i'll give it a look ;-)



I don't want to advertise, i just want to know how many poeple are using my software, and why some others are using other softwares.

You are not trying to advertise?

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....=ST&f=1&t=10345
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....=ST&f=1&t=10348
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....t=ST&f=1&t=4540


And obviously this thread, where you are indeed just trying to inform

I'm missing MP3 Tag Studio which I use ...

Oh, I guessed Tag & Rename was Case's Tag.exe. I use that because it works with Case's frontend

Just plain vanilla tag.exe for me.

I use Case's Tag too.

Kyle_Katarn, you can obviously see a lot of people use this, so I think you'd better start a new poll (or can an existing poll be modified ?)

If you add Tag, you should probably also mention ", or a tagger based on Tag", because e.g. Tagger is also based on Tag (and of course, there's also the front end).

And I also recommend you add a choice called "Other, please specify".

My €0.02.

fb2k does it all well and I'm quite happy with it.
Actually, I haven't even tried the other softwares. Not even with all these advertisement...

I use Case's Tag like many people here...

(Mac> Tag&Rename isn't Case's Tag... see http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm)

I've voted for foobar2000 because it's the only tagger in the list based on Case's Tag...

I think you should restart a new poll with Case's Tag in the list...

I use the tagger available from www.musicbrainz.org

It's a bit of a niche product right now but the new version of the tunepimp library currently being prepped for release means you'll probably see this powering a variety of different tagging solutions.

The two key selling points:

for anal-retentive quality-obssessed rippers: high data quality
for everyday joes who download tunes of P2P networks: it can correctly identify songs with bad tags simply by "listening" to them

check it out.

I use Tag Edit Pro v.3.1.7 from http://www.tfm.ro/
Grafically it is not the best, but do the work very well (only ID3 v1.1 Tags)

damjang

I'm using TagScanner right now, and I've been using it for quite a long time.

It's available from http://xdev.narod.ru/

You should give this program a go. Really.

I use Case's Tag + Tagger frontend, but since it's not on the list I voted for FB2K.

I also use MP3 Tag Studio.

Erm, someone remind me how many times this uhm person got banned from Winamp Forums for spamming his products because I don't even remember the number anymore.

[Offtopic]
I just want to give my support to picmixer and zZzZzZz.
One reason I've been reading this forum alot, is that people genarally don't seem to push their own products. I hope it will stay that way.
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I tend to use foobar2000 for most of my tagging needs. Tagger does the rest.

I tend to use foobar2000 for most of my tagging needs. Tagger does the rest. [/QUOTE]
Before I used Tag&Rename, now I use Tag + Tagger.

By now, there is still just one vote for K-MP3. Guess who voted so...

That's the proof that advertisement can't do it all.

Where's MP3Tag? I used it the whole day to tag all the crappy MP3s in order to get a brief overview over them. And I can recommend the proggy like I already did tons of times.

MP3: MP3Tag

Ogg Vorbis,MPC: Foobar

Rock on, picmixer

I use MP3-Tag Studio, too. It has the most flexibility I've found in manipulating all of the ID3 Tags, supports ID3v1.0, ID3v1.1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4 Tags.

Obviously no one is using K-MP3 but me !

metaflac
vorbiscomment
getID3() for APE2 tags

tags?

are you kidding?

not with a ten foot pole!

I use foobar2000's masstagger - it's one of the simplest and best solutions I have ever seen (and it's integrated in the player).

i'll give a look at Foobar

OK, if you really want information, here it is.

I use Tag&Rename, because:

1. It works, that seems silly to say, but so many products (M$) promise and don't deliver.

2. I like the concept of Case's Tag, it seems very powerfull, I am just too lazy to not have some sort of database/freedb support. Automation can be good. At last look, this was not supported/working in Tag.exe or it's various frontends.

3. I personally like the interface. It gives good filename and tag control, i.e. capitalize first letter, filenames beginning in 01_ 02_ etc, for my dumber players that mess up track order. I.E. car player. I can even have it drive down the folders/directories and adjust the filenames from the ID3 tags. This alone is a great feature.

4. It doesn't cost all that much for what it delivers. (I hated paying $70 for a VHS movie, and I didn't. $15 -$17 is OK. M$, are you listening? )

5. Oh, and another shot at M$. Tag&Rename gives me bug fixes and updates at no additional charge, unlike Microsoft Windows 95/98/98SE. I would hate for my auto manufacturer to make me pay for a 'recall.'

David

Here is my answers concerning K-MP3


So we do ;-)


Ok but automation makes batch processing much faster.


So does K-MP3, with a much ligther and more user friendly interface (T&R always appeared to me as a "bloated" one)


K-MP3 is FREE


Same as # 4

Kyle_Katarn

FYI, your response is what is drawing criticism.

If you were looking for information to improve you product, a response to my post is not needed.

The response you gave appears to me to be blatant advertising.

That being said, I will take a look at your application.

David

Excuse me but this was not my aim at all.

This impression may come from the fact that english is not a language in which i have a lot of "skills".

I'm really sorry about this, i'll try to improve ;-)

Case's Tag with Speek's Tag Frontend.

It's really ashame and a vast oversight in my opinion that Tag wasn't included in the poll of choices, hence the reason I didn't vote.

What you wrote was completely understandable, we all make the typical typographical error now and then.

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Off topic:
I'm quite frankly tired of seeing people make claims of English not being a language when a little heat gets turned in their direction. English may not be everyone's first language at which they are "good" at, however when they have written something understandable and then try to back off what they have written with the old "I ain't good with English, etc" it really starts to grind on my nerves.

Is there any masstagger capable of removing all tags? Or for example, remove all id3 tags and add apev2?

Case's TAG

I use Abander TagControl since it supports MP3\OGG\WMA\APE\MPC and Ca5e's Tag via Tagger frontend by Max Burreck.

About K-MP3: I'm Fool ! Realy ... I've spend my time downloading K-MP3 just to see example of ugly and
useless software. Learn programming dude ! It's possible to make fantastic things with VB but you've
made shit ... Better make one more calculator !

MP3: Tag&Rename, no match yet, this software is perfect for its purpose, its only shortcoming is it can't tag MPC and ogg (at least not APE tags)

MPC, Ogg: The Tagger -> http://www.tagger.de.vu/

Case's Tag.exe

Can anyone point me WHY Case's TAG is so popular?
Tag&Rename totally rulez, but it costs some $$, as a free alternative I've found Media Tagger, great program and satisfies all my tagging needs, though a bit buggy, I like grabbing info from CDDB, for me it is a key feature (and the new version also supports MPC, APE, Flac, etc, etc).

Foobar for tagging? You kidding right? The least convenient way to tag something, I'd better use MusicMatch Jukebox then foobar for tagging. You people go totally nuts when you try insist on superiority of some program. My opinion is "one tool - one task", player should play, tagger should tag, music collection software should "collect". I don't feel like using a saw on my Victorionox Swiss Knife to cut a pine tree - for this task I would use powerful electric saw.

good point

i can't say i fully experimented foobar's tagging features, but at first glance they seemed rather scant to me, so i didn't have the will to try it further...

For me it is very useful because it works with Speek's frontend's, meaning Speek's frontends (MPC Batch Encoder, Oggifier, etc) can tell Tag.exe to write tag's into the audio files immediately after encoding. That is very useful and totally automatted.

More reasons:
* It can remove all tags from files very easily.
* It can change how files are named, for example making all files in the same name format.

Tagging many single files one by one (sometimes you can't use masstagger) with foobar is quite annoying, but the masstagger in foobar is GREAT! I always use it to tag a new album with some of my custom tags etc. I myself really think that any audio (or actually, any multimadia) player SHOULD be capable of tagging. It just isn't so comfortable to switch from program to another if you have one typo in some file.
I understand what you meant by what you said, and I agree on some parts. For excessive tagging you really should use a tagger, but on some cases it's great to have that little player capable of tagging to make some quick edits etc in your tags.

Nobody else mentioned it so I will...

The EZ-Playlist plug-in for Winamp is a nice little database app with integrated tagging....mass tagging, file renaming form tag and tag from filename etc. good reporting to HTML, txt and csv etc.

Haven't looked at anything else since I found this little freeware gem 18 months ago.

Case's Tag.exe, nothing else...

Me to, but before I found foobar2000.
Before I was encoding to mp3 with lame (--alt-preset xtreme) and tag files with EZ-playlist plugin and it was great, but then I found foobar and now i'm using lossless or mpc or vorbis and case's plain tag.exe...

heh-heh Who do you suppose cast those other four votes?

Stuffing the ballot box, are we?

Dex